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Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoB.K. Bangash | Associated PressShireen Mazari, information secretary of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party, has called for the CIA station chief in Islamabad and CIA Director John Brennan to be tried for murder over a drone strike.

ISLAMABAD — Rising anger over deadly drone attacks spurred a Pakistani political party yesterday to reveal the secret identity of what it said was the top U.S. spy in the country.

It demanded that he be tried for murder, another blow to already jagged relations between the two nations.

A pair of U.S. missile strikes in recent weeks — including one that killed the Pakistani Taliban’s leader as the government prepared to invite him to hold peace talks — has increased simmering tensions between Washington and Islamabad.

The apparent disclosure of the top CIA officer’s name could strain the fragile diplomacy that the United States is relying upon to help negotiate an end to the war in neighboring Afghanistan.

It was the second time in recent years that Pakistanis opposed to drone strikes targeting Islamic militants have claimed to have revealed the identity of the top CIA spy in the country.

In a letter to Pakistani police, Shireen Mazari, the information secretary of political party Tehreek-e-Insaf, called for the CIA station chief in Islamabad and CIA Director John Brennan to be tried for murder and “waging war against Pakistan” in connection with a drone strike on an Islamic seminary last Thursday.

The political party controls the government in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is one of the main critics of the U.S. drone program and has pushed Pakistan’s federal government to take extreme measures until the United States stops the attacks.

Mazari said in a news conference that the strike in the province’s Hangu district killed four Pakistanis and two Afghans, and also wounded children. In her letter, Mazari claimed that the CIA station chief did not enjoy diplomatic immunity and should be prevented from leaving the country.

CIA spokesman Dean Boyd would not confirm the Islamabad station chief’s name.